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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 208 / Monday, October 29, 2007 / Notices 61167 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Preparedness and Response (ASPR)— 

Office of the Biomedical Advanced 

Research and Development Authority 

(BARDA). 

Both naturally occurring and 

intentional public health threats have 

the potential to cause catastrophic harm 

in a variety of ways, including economic 

repercussions and adverse effects on 

health, in some cases leading to loss of 

life. To meet these challenges, federal 

government encourages open 

communication with its stakeholders in 

the research and development 

communities and in industry. One 

method of improving this 

communication will be through the 

MedicalCountermeasures.gov Web site. 

The two key functions of the 

MedicalCountermeasures.gov Web site 

will be (1) to centrally manage 

stakeholder requests for meetings with 

government to present product 

information related to medical 

countermeasures against public health 

disasters, both manmade and naturally 

occurring; and (2) to provide our 

stakeholders in industry and academia 

with information on government 

sponsored opportunities and events 

related to medical countermeasures. 

In order to route product developers 

to the most appropriate personnel 

within the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS), HHS will 

collect some basic information about the 

company’s product through 

MedicalCountermeasures.gov. Using 

this information and a routing system 

that has been developed with input 

from the participating agencies within 

HHS, including the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Preparedness 

and Response (ASPR), the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 

the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA), and the National Institutes of 

Health (NIH), 

MedicalCountermeasures.gov will route 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE 

the meeting request to the appropriate 

person within HHS. HHS is 

collaborating with other agencies in the 

planning of this project, and hopes to 

expand this system to other agencies in 

the future. ASPR is requesting a three 

year clearance. 

HHS expects that the respondents will 

be made up of developers of medical 

countermeasures to naturally occurring 

and intentional public health threats. 

Participation in this system will be 

completely voluntary, and the 

information that is submitted to the 

system is for information only. We 

anticipate that the respondents will 

make a request on average once a year. 

The estimate of 225 respondents is 

based on the number of stakeholders 

from the target group who signed up for 

the Public Health Emergency Medical 

Countermeasures Stakeholders 

Workshop. 

Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Developers of medical countermeasures to naturally occurring and intentional public health threats. .......................................................................... 225 1 8/60 30 

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ 225 ........................ 30 

Mary Oliver-Anderson, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–21149 Filed 10–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Final Effect of 

Designation of a Class of Employees 

for Addition to the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice 

concerning the final effect of the HHS 

decision to designate a class of 

employees at the Ames Laboratory, 

Ames, Iowa, as an addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000. On September 12, 2007, as 

provided for under 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b), 

the Secretary of HHS designated the 

following class of employees as an 

addition to the SEC: 

Sheet metal workers, physical plant 

maintenance and associated support staff 

(including all maintenance shop personnel), 

and supervisory staff who were monitored or 

should have been monitored for potential 

internal radiation exposures associated with 

the maintenance and renovation activities of 

the thorium production areas in Wilhelm 

Hall (a.k.a. the Metallurgy Building or ‘‘Old’’ 

Metallurgy Building) at the Ames Laboratory 

from January 1, 1955, through December 31, 

1970, for a number of work days aggregating 

at least 250 work days or in combination 

with work days within the parameters 

established for one or more other classes of 

employees in the Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation became effective on 

October 12, 2007, as provided for under 

42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C). Hence, 

beginning on October 12, 2007, 

members of this class of employees, 

defined as reported in this notice, 

became members of the Special 

Exposure Cohort. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: October 23, 2007. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E7–21222 Filed 10–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Final Effect of 

Designation of a Class of Employees 

for Addition to the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS).